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Definition of picket verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

picket

verb

NAmE//ˈpɪkət//

[transitive, intransitive] picket (something)Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they picket

he / she / it pickets

past simple picketed

-ing form picketing

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to stand outside somewhere such as your place of work to protest about something or to try and persuade people to join a strike 200 workers were picketing the factory. Striking workers picketed outside the gates.

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